LED HVAC Conversion Help
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LED HVAC Conversion Help
Need some help. Have see a thread's on how to convert your HVAC unit to Led’s but can’t seem to find them. I want to do the conversion this weekend but need the tutorial's, Any help is apprciated.
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Go to Spdkilz.com... Carleton's has a good write up on it there!
Here's mine done...
PS. This job is a ROYAL PITA... so you're warned that you'll get pissed off, irritated, and fed up with the process but it will be worth it in the end!!
Good luck!
Here's mine done...
PS. This job is a ROYAL PITA... so you're warned that you'll get pissed off, irritated, and fed up with the process but it will be worth it in the end!!
Good luck!
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Thanks for the advice, got pissed off with the dash but I have the time so will give it a try. Questions, did you use 3mm or 5mm LED's? How much of pain was it to align all the lights so that there was good light disbursement. Also, did you shave down the lights (grind them)?
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I shaved down the 5MM tights (just the tips) to better disperse the light. Only one's I had to aim were the white ones in the pic, and that was pretty straight forward. The only tweaking I had to do was paint the tips on the LED's to dim them down...
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Originally Posted by YELLOHHH
Direct Link - http://www.spdkilz.com/techtipledhvac.html
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Originally Posted by YELLOHHH
WTF??
don't like it move on......at least appreciate the amount of time and effort it takes to do the job.
Looks good man..I haven't got the HVAC done..door switches and dash buttons done in red...the guy who did mine was gonna do my HVAC but he has been busy....
Carelton has a great site....lots of good info...
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Originally Posted by pewter99
WTF??
don't like it move on......at least appreciate the amount of time and effort it takes to do the job.
don't like it move on......at least appreciate the amount of time and effort it takes to do the job.
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Originally Posted by YELLOHHH
Not at all. Rob has told me that he would install LED's in my car for about 6 months now and still hasn't done it. I'm falling asleep waiting for him to do it. Get it?
my apologies....I just get so tired of people bashing people who do mods like LEDs, reasonable wings etc. just because they dont like them
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Originally Posted by YELLOHHH
Not at all. Rob has told me that he would install LED's in my car for about 6 months now and still hasn't done it. I'm falling asleep waiting for him to do it. Get it?
Well sorry that I'm a full time student double majoring in physics and pre-med... Why do you think you're so important??
Just playin man, I'll get to them over break when I have like 20 hours of free time!
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Originally Posted by CUlookin
Well sorry that I'm a full time student double majoring in physics and pre-med... Why do you think you're so important??
Just playin man, I'll get to them over break when I have like 20 hours of free time!
Just playin man, I'll get to them over break when I have like 20 hours of free time!
and yet you find time to blow up every pumpkin in a 10 mile radius...
I'm glad to see you have your priorities so clearly intact.
Me, too! What a cool interior mod. 